Galba's rule proved to be short lived however. His advanced age
had destroyed his energy, and he was entirely in the hands of
favourites. Laco, together with Titus Vinius, who became Galba's colleague
as consul, and
Galba's freedman Icelus Martianus, were said to
virtually control the emperor, even being called "the three
pedagogues" because of their influence on him. All this made the
new emperor gravely unpopular, and on January 15 69, Marcus Salvius Otho was proclaimed
emperor in his place. Galba was assassinated and Laco banished to
an island where he was later murdered by soldiers of Otho.